Willem Kalf
1619-1693 Dutch Willem Kalf Galleries Willem Kalf was born in Rotterdam, in 1619. He was previously thought to have been born in 1622, but H. E. van Gelder??s important archival research has established the painter??s correct place and date of birth. Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where his father, a cloth merchant, held municipal posts as well. In the late 1630s, Willem Kalf travelled to Paris and spent time in the circle of the Flemish artists in Saint-Germain-des-Pr??s, Paris. In Paris he painted mainly small-scale rustic interiors and still-lifes. Kalf??s rustic interiors are typically dominated by groups of vegetables, buckets, pots and pans, which he arranged as a still-life in the foreground (e.g. Kitchen Still-life, Dresden, Gemäldegal; Alte Meister). Figures usually appeared only in the blurred obscurity of the background. Though painted in Paris, those pictures belong to a pictorial tradition practised primarily in Flanders in the early 17th century, by such artists as David Teniers the Younger. The only indication of the French origin of the paintings are a few objects that Flemish exponents of the same genre would not have pictured in their works. Kalf??s rustic interiors had a large influence on French art in the circle of the Le Nain brothers. The semi-monochrome still-lifes which Kalf created in Paris form a link to the banketjes or 'little banquet pieces' painted by such Dutch artists as Pieter Claesz, Willem Claeszoon Heda and others in the 1630s. During the 1640s, Kalf further developed the banketje into a novel form of sumptuous and ornate still-life (known as pronkstilleven), depicting rich groupings of gold and silver vessels. Like other still-lifes of this period, these paintings were usually expressing vanitas allegories.

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Willem Kalf Style life with Nautilus goblet oil painting


Style life with Nautilus goblet
mk186 1660 Madrids, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza
Painting ID::  45631
Willem Kalf
Style life with Nautilus goblet
mk186 1660 Madrids, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza
   
   
     

Willem Kalf stillleben oil painting


stillleben
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Painting ID::  67356
Willem Kalf
stillleben
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Willem Kalf Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup oil painting


Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup
1662 Oil on canvas cjr
Painting ID::  75001
Willem Kalf
Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup
1662 Oil on canvas cjr
   
   
     

Willem Kalf Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup oil painting


Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup
1662 Oil on canvas 64 X 53 cm cjr
Painting ID::  75019
Willem Kalf
Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup
1662 Oil on canvas 64 X 53 cm cjr
   
   
     

Willem Kalf Still-Life with an Aquamanile, Fruit, and a Nautilus Cup oil painting


Still-Life with an Aquamanile, Fruit, and a Nautilus Cup
c. 1660 Oil on canvas 111 x 84 cm cjr
Painting ID::  75122
Willem Kalf
Still-Life with an Aquamanile, Fruit, and a Nautilus Cup
c. 1660 Oil on canvas 111 x 84 cm cjr
   
   
     

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     1619-1693 Dutch Willem Kalf Galleries Willem Kalf was born in Rotterdam, in 1619. He was previously thought to have been born in 1622, but H. E. van Gelder??s important archival research has established the painter??s correct place and date of birth. Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where his father, a cloth merchant, held municipal posts as well. In the late 1630s, Willem Kalf travelled to Paris and spent time in the circle of the Flemish artists in Saint-Germain-des-Pr??s, Paris. In Paris he painted mainly small-scale rustic interiors and still-lifes. Kalf??s rustic interiors are typically dominated by groups of vegetables, buckets, pots and pans, which he arranged as a still-life in the foreground (e.g. Kitchen Still-life, Dresden, Gemäldegal; Alte Meister). Figures usually appeared only in the blurred obscurity of the background. Though painted in Paris, those pictures belong to a pictorial tradition practised primarily in Flanders in the early 17th century, by such artists as David Teniers the Younger. The only indication of the French origin of the paintings are a few objects that Flemish exponents of the same genre would not have pictured in their works. Kalf??s rustic interiors had a large influence on French art in the circle of the Le Nain brothers. The semi-monochrome still-lifes which Kalf created in Paris form a link to the banketjes or 'little banquet pieces' painted by such Dutch artists as Pieter Claesz, Willem Claeszoon Heda and others in the 1630s. During the 1640s, Kalf further developed the banketje into a novel form of sumptuous and ornate still-life (known as pronkstilleven), depicting rich groupings of gold and silver vessels. Like other still-lifes of this period, these paintings were usually expressing vanitas allegories.

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